We report on the behavior of colloidal spheres suspended in nematic solutions of rodlike
(calamitic phase) and disklike (discotic phase) micelles. The particles form anisotropic …

Aqueous suspensions of V 2 O 5 ribbons are one of the very few examples of mineral liquid
crystals. In the concentrated regime, we show that these ribbons organize in a biaxial …

The laser-induced nonlinear optical response of micellar lyotropic liquid crystals in the
nematic and isotropic phases is presented. The Z-scan technique is used to measure the …

The twist deformation induced by a magnetic field H in a lyotropic liquid crystal is analyzed.
Our results show the existence of three regimes for the surface deformation related to two …

A phenomenological theory that describes the reorientational phase transitions between
inhomogeneous states in lyotropic liquid crystals in an external magnetic field is presented …